Police: Greater London

Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers there were in  (a) London and  (b) each London borough in each year since 1997.

Tony McNulty: The available information is in the following tables. Police officer figures for London boroughs were collected centrally from 2003.
	
		
			  Number of police officers for London and London boroughs: 1997 to 2007( 1) 
			  Table A: Police officers (FTE) for London: 1997 to 2002( 1) 
			   Year ending 31 March: 
			   1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002 
			 London(2) 27,536 26,919 26,851 26,217 25,581 26,987 
		
	
	
		
			  Table B: Police officers (FTE) for London and London boroughs: 2003 to 2007( 1) 
			   Year ending 31 March: 
			   2003  2004  2005  2006  2007 
			 Barking and Dagenham 360 384 419 426 427 
			 Barnet 522 541 561 554 551 
			 Bexley 315 338 383 361 371 
			 Brent 619 683 679 667 672 
			 Bromley 417 459 489 484 493 
			 Camden 719 794 850 854 812 
			 City of Westminster 1,565 1,637 1,617 1,572 1,561 
			 Croydon 624 659 692 694 684 
			 Ealing 652 697 686 673 681 
			 Enfield 490 538 575 560 582 
			 Greenwich 604 583 605 615 632 
			 Hackney 673 766 789 767 744 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 513 516 526 553 562 
			 Haringey 633 682 683 717 689 
			 Harrow 302 333 342 347 354 
			 Havering 340 343 383 380 383 
			 Hillingdon 458 484 498 506 495 
			 Hounslow 467 472 510 501 519 
			 Islington 623 680 683 685 678 
			 Kensington and Chelsea 528 575 562 574 568 
			 Kingston upon Thames 272 275 298 307 294 
			 Lambeth 968 941 984 994 953 
			 Lewisham 571 625 646 649 619 
			 Merton 304 339 352 353 377 
			 Newham 692 781 782 781 758 
			 Redbridge 393 440 459 471 467 
			 Richmond upon Thames 284 285 287 294 303 
			 Southwark 838 869 891 873 846 
			 Sutton 266 280 291 307 306 
			 Tower Hamlets 686 760 761 775 756 
			 Waltham Forest 486 533 546 556 543 
			 Wandsworth 557 612 582 607 599 
			   
			 City of London 434 445 438 438 412 
			   
			 London(2) 28,792 30,588 31,586 31,823 31,564 
			 (1) All figures are full-time equivalents (FTE) rounded to the nearest whole number. (2) The London totals comprise officer totals for Metropolitan police and City of London police. They are 'not' totals of the London boroughs because they also include Heathrow and Central Services. Excludes officers on career breaks and maternity/paternity leave.

Prostitution

Denis MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many men were  (a) arrested and  (b) prosecuted for crimes arising from them paying for sex in each of the last five years.

Vernon Coaker: The arrests collection undertaken by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform only provides data on persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) by age group, gender, ethnicity, and main offence group, i.e. violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery, burglary, etc. More detailed data about specific offences do not form part of this collection.
	The following table sets out the number of men proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts in England and Wales between 2001 and 2005 for offences related to paying for sex.
	
		
			  Number of male persons proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for selected sexual offences, England and Wales 2001-05( 1, 2) 
			   Offence description  Principal statute  Proceeded against 
			 2001  2002  2003  2004  2005 
			 2700 Soliciting by a man Sexual Offences Act 1956 S.32 10 7 15 6 1 
			 7104 Paying for sex with a female child under 16—no penetration Sexual Offences Act 2003 S.47(1,2,4b) (3)— (3)— (3)— 1 — 
			 7105 Paying for sex with a male child under 16—no penetration Sexual Offences Act 2003 8:47(1,2,45) (3)— (3)— (3)— — 3 
			 7114 Paying for sex with a female child under 16—penetration Sexual Offences Act 2003 8.47(1 afbIci,2,4a,6) (3)— (3)— (3)— 1 — 
			 16501 Kerb-crawling Sexual Offences Act 1985 Sec 1. 914 1,047 944 836 710 
			 16502 Persistent soliciting of women for the purpose of prostitution Sexual Offences Act 1985 Sec 2. 97 119 69 64 41 
			  Total  1,021 1,173 1,028 908 755 
			 (1) These data are provided on the principal offence basis  (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.  (3) Data not applicable (2003 Sexual Offences Act didn't come into force until 2004).